Thread:Vasara5/@comment-30866120-20180603171400/@comment-27493717-20180609140145

Hahaha! I think so, too.

But, seriously, it's quite a shame, that EA's support is that bad, because Spore was a great game and deserved a lot more love than a broken online mode.

Back when I played the game, I got all achievements, but it was a warm day like today and my computer crashed. Some of my achievements were never properly migrated to my online account, but because I already got them ingame, there was no way of achieving them a second time.

I contacted EA, but they couldn't help me with the issue either.

Also, whenever I started that game file, it would block me from getting further achievements, because the computer crash caused the game to think, that I hacked the save file or something. I still think, that my save file got corrupted, because my computer crashed while I got the "Dancing with the Devil"-achievement.

And the worst part is, that it was an achievement, which was really hard to get, because you needed to fly your space ship into an extremely hostile area of the game, where the characters in question would shot at you before you got in range to talk to them and my ship was almost completely wrecked when I befriended them, which I only managed because I got the achievement, where you meet the creator of the game in the center of the universe, who gives you a special staff, beforehand. (also really hard to get)

Now, I can never get these achievements again and I wasted hours on them.

When I installed the Adventures pack to my Spore game, my game wouldn't run anymore and no one could help me.

That was the point, when I quit Spore, because the whole thing with my game being broken and EA not supporting me properly really got to the point, where I was tired of Spore and had no intention of ever reinstalling it again.

I still have all my creatures, buildings, saves, etc., but my game doesn't run anymore and I don't want to use one of my (also limited) installions on installing it on my new computer. That's right, you could also only install your game 3 times, because EA was afraid of you selling it to someone or you being a hacker and pirating the game.

I just think, they were really weird people. Why would anyone ever hack your game, if they can have a demo of it for free?

Also, the only phase of the game, that ever felt like they really playtested it was the Creature stage, because you never could evolve into the cells found in Cell stage (In a game about evolution! In its spritual predecessor, EVO, you can imitate most creatures!) and every stage from the Tribal stage onwards didn't allow you to evolve your creature anymore (Again, in a game about evolution! A complete no go!) and turned it into a boring Civilization/Star Wars Force Commander clone without all the things, that made Civilization and Star Wars fun.

So, while I used to love Spore, it really turned into "meh..." at some point.